Monday - Friday
Spent the week working from home doing the normal remote worker teleconference and email stuff.
Saturday
Went to renew night currency, but the landing light was burnt out so I had to scrub.
Sunday
Coffee at the airport.
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Monday
Started the day with an early work call, then another work call. After the calls, finished packing and then headed to JAX to catch an afternoon flight to NYC.
Tuesday and Wednesday
Worked in the IBM office in mid-town Manhattan preparing for a meeting with the client on Thursday.
Thursday
Spent most of the day in a meeting with the client to walk through our proposed solution.
Friday
Dialed into a call to debrief from our meeting with the client the previous day, then took a taxi to LGA to catch a late morning flight home to JAX. Drove to Jacksonville and had dinner at P.F. Chang's.
Saturday
Went to brunch at Parkway Grille. Jeanie had an egg salad sandwich and I had eggs over easy with toast and hash browns. Learned that as much as Jeanie loves tomatoes, she doesn't like tomato on her egg salad sandwiches.
Then we went to the Kelly Seahorse Ranch Stables at the south end of the island. http://www.kellyranchinc.com/ Google Search for other options: link
Decided not to ride because the weather was marginal and Jeanie was feeling a little pre-migraine
Went downtown and walked around. Visited four galleries and then went to the jewelry store to pick up her dragonfly pin and charm bracelet, both of which had been repaired.
Then drove to Blockbuster and picked up a couple of movies - W. and Revolutionary Road. Both of us were tired, so we got into bed and started watching W. Movie was interesting, but I guess we were both more tired than interested, as both of us fell asleep a couple of times during the movie.
Then had leftovers from Friday night's diner at P.F. Chang's.
Watched some TV, went to bed early.
Sunday
Made coffee in Jeanie's new Chemex coffee maker Jamie sent for Jeanie's birthday. Yes, it really does make great coffee.
Flew to Jekyll Island and had brunch at the Jekyll Island Club http://www.jekyllclub.com. Crab claws, jumbo shrimp, caviar, smoked salmon, cheese, snapper, grits, potatoes, deserts. Walked around some, sat and watched a couple play croquet (they seemed to know what they were doing, and took the game very seriously, even using what appeared to be their own mallets that were square in cross section rather than round) then flew home. Weather was beautiful. Sunny, a bit warm in the sun, but lovely in the shade. Watched some TV and went to bed early.
You can view photos from the trip here: Gallery
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Monday - Friday
Worked like a slave. Completed the proposal, then drove home. Got home at 11:00 PM which ended up netting a seven day work week of 101 hours. Started exercising again - stairs at the hotel and at work.
Saturday
Was exhausted, but went to give blood anyway, but they wouldn't let me donate as my iron was one tenth of a point below the minimum. That made me really grumpy. Slept most of the day. Jeanie went to the store to buy me some iron pills. Funny that one of the selfish values of giving blood was that I had once heard that part of the reason men had more heart trouble than women was due to excess iron in our blood. Since the body doesn't produce iron itself, by giving blood, and taking a multi-vitamin without iron, I was thinking I was doing good. But, apparently, the veggie thing doesn't provide enough iron, so I was deficient. Sometimes (only sometimes?) it seems like I just can't win.
Sunday
Went to coffee then had the monthly flying club meeting. worked for an hour. Then Jeanie and I took the dogs down to center street which was really nice. Tried to go to DQ, but it was closed for the second time we've tried. Thinking maybe it's CLOSED. Went to McD's to get the dogs their ice cream and Jeanie a chocolate shake..
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Monday - Friday
Worked like a mule.
Saturday
Spent the weekend in Tampa, alone, working. Team deserted me, and it was too hot to work in the office since they turn the A/C off nights and weekends, so I worked in the hotel room. I thought I had gotten so lucky to get a room with a view of the pool and Tampa bay. It's great, except when you're stuck in your room working alone, and when you get up to take a break and look out the window, you see all the folks down at the pool having fun..
Had lunch at Gogos. Think Chipotle Grill, but with Greek food instead of Mexican. I had a Greek salad and a side of grilled pita and a side of hummus. Yum! If they franchised, I'd seriously consider it...
Also found wooden Q-Tips at CVS - more expensive than the ones I found on e-Bay $3.69 for 125 (about 2X more per Q-Tip), but, they were "here" and they are very good quality - strong sticks, lots of cotton on the tip.
Sunday
Another long day working.
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Monday
Work.
Tuesday
Work.
Wednesday
Work.
Thursday
Took an hour off from work to go to the airport to provide some free consulting to the airport manager regarding his connectivity - or technically, at the moment, the lack thereof. As opposed to my "day job," it was nice to be able to do something that provided a positive, and immediate benefit to my "customer" and to me.
Sautéed a few onions and a yellow pepper which I then used to make a meatless Italian sausage sandwich. Amazing what MorningStar Farms has been able to create that tastes good and adds variety to our meals. Still, these ersatz meat products in a small way make me feel like I am cheating on the whole pescatarian thing. I know that technically I am not, but it always reminds me of the Jimmy Carter interview in Playboy where he cites Matthew 5:28 "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." So, does not eating a veggie burger constitute meatultry?
Actually remembered to take out the garbage and the recycling. Yea me!
Friday
Another day of early start after a late end from the previous day. As with the rest of the week, spent most of the day on teleconferences.
Really enjoyed my dinner of a baked, cheese topped meatless ball sandwich with sautéed peppers and onions.
But, this eating meals alone sucks. After walking just a few steps in Jeanie's shoes, I'm really thinking about all the time Jeanie has been alone over the last five years. I realize I am blessed to have a job at all, much less one that pays well, and that there are lots of people that must spend much more time away from their loved ones, in much worse conditions. Still, I have to ask myself.
Saturday
CAP monthly meeting. Flew the club plane for over an hour totally focused on proficiency work: steep turns, stalls, slow flight, regular, soft field, short field and power off landings. Picked up a rental car at the Fernandina Beach airport for next week. Had to rent the car on Saturday, even though I wasn't leaving until Sunday, because the Hertz counter at KFHB isn't open on Sundays.
Sunday
Jeanie was out of town, so I drove to Tampa where I will be working for the next two weeks rather than taking a commercial flight. Visited Mom on the way, and had a really nice visit. Drive wasn't too bad. Took about 4 1/2 hours. Drove through a really bad thunderstorm just west of Orlando. It rained so hard, I could barely see ahead. Fortunately, the car had a stereo with an Aux jack, so I could listen to tunes from my Creative Nomad Zen. It might be old and large, but it still gets the job done for me. Played with the two different TomTom GPS units I had purchased from Walmart.com - the TomTom One 140-S and the TomTom One 340 XLS. Basically, both units are functionally equivalent, other than the screen size. The 340, with its wider screen, has slightly better resolution, but because of this, while the text is slightly sharper, it is also slightly smaller. When all was said and done, I decided to keep the 140 because: I found it slightly easier to read when mounted on the windshield, it is a bit smaller, and it was less expensive. The only feature the 340 had that the 140 didn't was the ability to display the compass heading in degrees on the display - although technically, the 140 can, it's just that when you do, it makes the font size for all of the displayed items at the bottom of the screen a smaller font. I was able to mostly work around it by displaying the compass pointer, which displays in a different spot on the screen and thus does not reduce the font size, although it doesn't display the heading in degrees. In terms of things I really liked about both units: volume was nice and loud, and the integrated suction cup mount makes it so much easier to carry around when I travel compared to having a separate mount.
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